Abstract

This study was designed to investigate “Teachers Classroom Management and students’ participation during Biology lessons in secondary schools in the Buea Municipality”. The objectives that were used for the study were: to examine the effect of authoritarian approach on students’ participation during Biology lessons in secondary schools in the Buea municipality, to examine the effect of behaviour modification on students’ participation during Biology lessons in secondary schools in the Buea municipality and to examine the effect of instructional approach on students’ participation during Biology lessons in secondary schools in the Buea municipality. The research design use for the study was the descriptive research.

The sample size was 100 students selected from three secondary schools in Buea municipality. The questionnaire was used to obtain information from correspondents and data were analyzed descriptively using percentages and frequencies and inferentially using person’s product correlation.

The following results were obtained; the findings revealed that there is a moderate positive correlation between authoritarian approach and students’ participation during Biology lessons, the findings revealed that there is a moderate positive correlation between behavior modification and students’ participation during Biology lessons and the findings also revealed that there is a moderate positive correlation between instructional approach and students’ participation during Biology lessons.

Based on the findings on research question it was recommended that amongst others that parents, teachers and education authorities should ensure that children, student teachers, and teachers are properly cultured on effective authoritarian approach.

While parents and teachers bring up their children and students in using positive, inspiring, motivating, and friendly words, education authorities must ensure that school curricula make adequate provision for the teaching of students and the training and retraining of teachers in effective approach.

Also it was recommended that secondary school administrators should provide training and retraining programmes for biology teachers in secondary schools through workshops, seminars and conferences to up-date their behavioural principles and warm student-teacher relationships should be harnessed using behavioural classroom management style in order to improve on biology student participation during practical and lastly it was recommended that Teachers should use the instructional approach in the teaching-learning process to motivate the students towards studies.

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